A nation once seen as a great hope in the Middle East is unraveling, as
al-Qaeda sinks its teeth in, and a bloodied America wonders what could
have been.
When
the last U.S. combat troops departed Iraq in December 2011, they left
behind a defeated al-Qaeda and an Iraq where traditional rivals Sunni
and Shiite Muslims were sharing power in the world's only Arab
democracy. Two years later, al-Qaeda has seized major cities where
hundreds of U.S. troops died while fighting alongside their Iraqi
brethren. The population once freed by the U.S.-Iraqi alliance has now
watched those same jihadist insurgents return to command the streets and
impose their will. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/01/12/many-iraq-war-gains-now-lost-or-threatened/4393439/
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